A heartfelt attempt to capture the fragility of life: Barbara Dunne reviews ‘Mimesis’ By Michael Quinn and Joe Boske
Many of Michael Quinn’s poem deal with the personal and collective trauma in the Irish psyche.
Reviews
Sarah Meehan: 3 Poems
Sarah Meehan lives and writes amongst the creeks and mountains of Jinibara land (Sunshine Coast hinterland). Her work has been published in Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA, including in The Weekend Australian, Cordite Poetry Review, The Marrow, Mslexia, Crannóg Magazine, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing and Skylight 47.
Vast, unquenchable curiosity: Les Wicks launches ‘Sejours en France et autre pays’ by Ron Wilkins
Firstly, one has to marvel at the vast, unquenchable curiosity that runs through Ron’s work. There is a global shortage of this invaluable human trait. You find it everywhere in this book from communal bathrooms in Japan to the nature of the human soul.
Guth a thabhairt (Giving voice): Michael Witts reviews Seang (Hungering) by Anne Casey
This beautiful collection is both a joy to read and a challenge. Each poem stands as part of a carefully curated section. The sections combine to form a collection which demands to be read as a whole,
A celebration of informed and fruitful difference: Gig Ryan launches ‘The Wallace Line’ by Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie’s work is often ekphrastic, inspired by, or growing out from, another work of art. She doesn’t describe that work of origin, as if outside of it, but becomes thoroughly embedded, moving between direct quotation and poetic re-imagining.
Vale Moya Costello
Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello.
Issue 42 – 2025:2 has been archived
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2025 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival was founded in 1985 by poet and activist Tim Thorne. Thorne’s contribution to poetry in Tasmania and beyond is remembered each year by the awarding of the Tim Thorne Poetry Prize,
Kate Newmann: 3 Poems
Kate Newmann is an Irish poet. She read at the 25th Medellin International Poetry Festival, Colombia, and at the Himalayan Echoes Festival in Nainital, India. She has been involved in many projects, including creative writing with student teachers at a summer camp in Vyborg, Russia, and with the Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, USA. She has published five collections of poetry.
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